His misguided pursuit of the money becomes a funny-sad quest.
I'd especially give them a sad, poignant, questing little book called "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly (written under the alias Palinurus).
Although lightly struck, that elegiac note reverberates throughout the book, which begins as one sad drunk's personal quest for redemption and becomes a lament for all the old familiar things that are now almost lost, almost forgotten.
And put a sad end to Tracy McGrady's quest for a ring.
That we learn the sad fate that awaits Penny in the opening minutes makes her quest seem all the more futile.
Kureishi's quest for meaning somehow had to make sense of many sad bits, some awkward bits, and the kinds of bits that are foreign to the pages of Wodehouse: politics, pop culture, sex, drugs and race.
It's a sad day for the guy who embarks on such a vague, unruly quest.
According to Shiba, multiple elements of the story and world were created to be dark, sad and serious in tone, in contrast to the likes of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
